Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knocklong East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks and St Pauls Wells
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks and St Pauls Wells
- Coordinates
- 52.42914, -8.40534
- SMR number
- LI041-004007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Three holy wells dedicated to St. Patrick and St Paul depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about these wells; ‘There are two holy wells, St Patrick's and St Paul's Wells, on the east side of Knocklong hill". OSL - One spring, lined with rough dry-stone, and some old masonry remain. No tradition seems to have survived'. This area is now covered with trees and vegetation making it impossible to verify the location of these holy wells.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.